We are Team Orion, and we are the developers behind LeapIn.it, a social network which encourages people to form groups based on their personal interests. LeapIn.it provides users with a barcode scanner which can be used to access rooms unique to barcodes and QR-codes found on products and promotional material. The video below demonstrates our prototype of LeapIn.it.
http://youtu.be/Rq09i_06i_Y
This blog documents the conception and development of LeapIn.it, through to the creation and evaluation of three prototypes. You can navigate the blog using the contents list below, the section headers above or as a blog. The tags are also displayed on the right, such that you can view posts about particular topics.
Contents
Introduction
Planning
- Ideas development
- A gaming experience social network?
- A gaming experience social network? A user perspective
- A virtual world social network?
- A virtual world social network? A user perspective
- Initial time plan
- Minutes of meetings
- Revised time plan
Academic Background
- Academia: Gaming Social Networks
- Academia: Virtual Worlds
- Academia: Quick Response Codes and Bar Codes
- Academia: Homophily-Heterophily
- Academia: Sharing behaviors among the users of social networks
- Academia: Avatars in online communities
Analysis
- Existing systems: social networks
- Existing systems: gaming social networks
- Existing systems: virtual worlds
- Survey design
- Mobile devices
- Related news: items from tech media
- Functional Requirements
- Non-Functional Requirements
- The business model
- Use case diagram
- Related news: items from popular culture
- Context-level data flow diagram
- Results of the survey
Design
- Mockups
- Branding
- Scenarios: Users using LeapIn.it
- Class and EER Diagram
- Architecture overview
- Linking similar rooms and room clustering
- Privacy in LeapIn.it
- Scenarios: Companies using LeapIn.it
- Revised mockups and the Honeycomb
- Social, ethical and legal considerations
- Semantic Web – an ontology for LeapIn.it
Implementation
- Methods of access
- Development environment
- Prototype 1: Mobile interface
- Prototype 2: Barcode scanning
- Prototype 3: LeapIn.it app
- Design Patterns, Libraries and APIs
- Testing and code quality
- Code availability
- LeapIn.it REST API